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Summary: A VERY INTERESTING AND ENJOYABLE READ!
Review: As a huge fan of books about ancient egypt, I found this particular book very satisfying indeed. Although not as good as "THE RIVER GOD", it is still very readable.
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Summary: A Great Story!
Review: As a huge fan of Tarr's work, I truly enjoy her vivid prose and believable storyline. A lot of my students are introduced to the joys of history through historical fiction, and I am glad that there is an author whose writing is intriguing enough to draw even in the most resistant. The incorporation of the story of Moses is especially fitting to my students' interest as they are currently reviewing the Biblical story in both Religion and World History.
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Summary: Captivates your very being!!!
Review: I am also a first time reader of Tarr, and as a lover of Egypt and it's history, she really made me feel like I had actually lived through the things that happened. Although, as mentioned above, there were some sentences that just didn't "click", but I also believe those to be just typographical errors. As a novice to the wonders of ancient Egypt, I really felt like this book provided me with mostly valid and wonderful information. She really made the characters come alive, and overall, the book(in my opinion), was HUGE success. I'd love to see more written as this one was. Thanks!
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Summary: I felt I was actually with Nofret in ancient Egypt
Review: I have almost completed "Pillar of Fire" by Judith Tarr. It's the first of her novels I have read. It has completely captivated me. There is only one other book that is it's equal to me and that is Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge. That one I read twice. I am now scouting amazon for more of the same genre.
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Summary: I love this book...
Review: I loved this book for its creativity. It kept me interested the whole time I was reading it, and it got me more interested in the history of this time period.
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Summary: Don't quite buy it
Review: I think that Ms. Tarr is a good writer (her Avaryan Rising series was great!) but her genre is fantasy, not historic fiction. Fantasy has lots of room for imagination. Pillar of Fire, on the other hand, employs characters who lived and breathed. Since this is not my first book on Ancient Egypt, I had a chance to compare. Unfortunately, Pillar of Fire loses to to just about any Egyptian book that came my way. First of all I did not buy Nofret: a slave, especially a woman, who dared to utter a word to the Princess or Pharaoh would have been dead that very moment. Feminism is a good thing, but not when you write about a slave in ancient Egypt... Second, I don't think that Pharaoh marrying his daughters could have caused outrage because it was a custom for kings both before and after Akhenaten. (What about Akhenaten marrying his mother Tiye -- this was not even mentioned in the book) Finally, I did not buy the Akhenaten - Moses theory. I don't think I have to go into detail on that (couple hundred years too early, maybe...) The bottom line: read The Twelfth Transforming by Pauline Gedge for a MUCH more satisfying book on this subject.
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Summary: Pillar of Fire really moved me
Review: I truely had an awakening when I read this book. I know that it is odd and strange for me to say this, but because of this book I became so inthralled in Egyptian History, I have decided to become a Historian. Thank you. I would tell anyone I meet to read this book. I know they would all love it.
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Summary: Not her best book
Review: I've read some of her earlier books ("The Hound and the Falcon" among others), and this isn't my favorite Judith Tarr novel to say the least. It's less "fantasy" than what I've become used to from her, and I was more than annoyed with the way she rewrote the story about moses from the exodus. I know that story very well, and this version is just crazy. The rest of the novel (the first two parts of three) is okay though, but a bit unbelieveable if you ask me. I like this character "Nofret" and the way her life-story is told. I think most people will find this story quite boring and I wouldn't recommend this book to my friends. Still ... it isn't a bad novel. It's very well told story and made me a lot more interested in Egyptian history and archeology. Since I don't know a lot about such in the first place, I can't comment on the accurateness of that in this novel.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: This book is really interesting. I am right now doing a unit study on Ancient Egypt, and my Mom got this for me from the library. Anyway, this would have to be the best Ancient Egyptian book I have read. I recommend it for readers who are mature though, younger readers may not understand some of the content. I enjoy how Ms. Tarr weaves the story, with many interesting facts in between. I also like how 'Nofret' (a Hittite slave girl) and I think many of the same things about the Pharoah's actions. I recommend this book to all of my friends!
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Summary: Meaningless Tripe
Review: This book is so bad that I, armchair Egyptologist of the greatest degree, could not finish it. Tarr simply cannot write. Her prose is clunky, prosaic, and often uninteresting to the point of insanity. Well researched as this book may be, Judith Tarr simply cannot make this work.
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